Angela on Paper

Why do people choose their favorite quotes? Why do we insist on summing our feelings up or writing them down on paper? I, for one, think sometimes it's nice to know someone has felt the EXACT same way as you. Sometimes when you can't figure out what you want to say and someone just combines the perfect words as eloquently as can be. Whatever the reason, it's nice to see something complicated simplified or sounding beautifully.

A few things have been on my mind regarding this:
Personality tests: I'm an ISTJ on the "Myers-Briggs" personality test. What this means is (on a scale of 1-100) I'm an 80 Introvert (I); 12 Sensing (S); 40 Thinking (T); and 40 Judging (J). The opposites are Extrovert, Intuitive, Feeling, and Perceiving (respectively). You can look up ISTJs and find out what I'm all about because it really does describe me pretty accurately.
The point is, people find such comfort in that. As if we need something to blame for why we are the way we are. I think this can be a good thing when you just really have no idea why you do some things you do. It can help explain why some people don't get along. But it can kind of be a bad thing when we use it to escape responsibility. As long as you understand the use of those tests, it can be helpful.
Helpful to see yourself on paper, indeed.

Other things is just the extreme use of quotes and lyrics to explain how you're feeling. I don't really think this can be unhealthy at all. I just find it fascinating we all use them so much. Speaking of which, I've got a few I just wanted to share.

"What you think is love is you simply choosing, and what you are willing to do…which is simply the choice. Love is an emotion you feel…an indescribable feeling of so said compassion and desire and joy and confusement and happiness and duty and openness and giving. The more you fall into this love and opening of yourself the more you become that person and the more you can be hurt because of that person. The whole idea of love is a strange one. Why would you open yourself completely up, just so that you can become weak and fragile to be hurt. Wouldn't it be easier to live a life of contentment and self discovery, or is that just another aspect of the tragedy of life?" - Matthew Lengyel

"It is strange… being more content with one self. A little to much of it isn't so good. You become isolated. Oh, of course you still talk, you still relate to the world, you have an amazing outlook on life, you become more social than you had been in a long time, but yet, you cut yourself off from the world. You seem to just be standing there, watching, and whenever one of those people come along just wanting to experience something new with you and make, even if it is small, a chapter in your life…you just push it away, because you say you're content, and don't need others to make you feel better about yourself. But that isn't the true reason. It's because you are scared to change. You're scared that you might feel something. You're scared that you might care till your heart hurts…You're scared to Feel.
Wouldn't it be so much easier to just be content; of course. But when you become dependent on your own contentness, then where is your life? Where is the pain, the joy, the happiness, the anger, the frustration, the patience, the love, the caring, the character, the meaning, and life…" - Matthew Lengyel

""I'm a 'T' on the Myers-Briggs. And all other personality quizzes. Which means I'm a "thinking type". For those of you who are thinking types, you might remember this - We don't like to cry. We don't cry that much actually and we really don't like to. But if we're gonna have to cry, we really wanna intellectually understand why." - Mary Poplin

I'm a T on the Myers-Briggs. So that means doing something "because I felt like it" doesn't appeal to me. I truly enjoy thinking things out. Because I'm an "I" that means I process things internally. Introvertly.

There are some tid bits of Angela on paper. And some quotes saying things I can't. :)

Thinking,
Angela